qPython is a Python library providing support for interprocess communication between Python and kdb+ processes, it offers:

• Synchronous and asynchronous queries
• Convenient asynchronous callbacks mechanism
• Support for kdb+ protocol and types: v3.0, v2.6, v<=2.5
• Uncompression of the IPC data stream
• Internal representation of data via numpy arrays (lists, complex types) and numpy data types (atoms)
• Supported on Python 2.7 and numpy 1.8

For more details please refer to the documentation.

qPython utilizes Cython to tune performance critical parts of the code.

Instructions:

• Execute: python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Instructions:

• Execute: python setup.py bdist

qPython uses py.test as a test runner for unit tests.

Instructions:

• Make sure that top directory is included in the PYTHONPATH
• Execute: py.test

To run, qPython requires:

• numpy 1.8

To tune performance critical parts of the code, additional requirements have to be met:

• Cython 0.20.1

To run Twisted sample, qPython requires:

• Twisted 13.2.0

Required libraries can be installed using pip.

To install all the required dependencies, execute: pip install -r requirements.txt

To install minimal set of required dependencies, execute: pip install -r requirements-minimal.txt